"Jabber is an instant messaging System, similar to ICQ or AIM, yet far different. It is open source, absolutely free, simple, fast, extensible, modularized, cross platform, and created with the future in mind. Jabber has been designed from the ground up to serve the needs of the end user, satisfy business demands, and maintain compatibility with other messaging systems."
this reminds me that it would probably be cheaper to revisit the linux home automation site and order a few firecrackers [hint: the special '24-hour only' deal has been running continuously for at least a year]
what they were thinking:
"These images, generated with M.R.I. and PET scans, show the way different thoughts affect the flow of blood to the brains of research subjects. Each of the four groups above represents one averaged, composite brain from different views. The upper left corner shows a brain thinking pleasant thoughts and the upper right brain is thinking depressing thoughts; the lower left, anxiety-inducing thoughts; the lower right, irritating thoughts. Areas in red indicate intense brain activity; areas in purple, reduced brain activity. (Images from Dr. Hanna Damasio, University of Iowa College of Medicine.) "but i'd really like to know how these people were thinking:
"Some brain-injury victims who lose the ability to understand speech develop a talent that could come in handy during an election year: an uncanny ability to tell when someone is lying."
""You have your 'isa' hierarchy all thought out - let's say you have a "mammals" class and a "reptiles" class and so on - and you start to implement it, and along comes a platypus, a fur-bearing, egg-laying, duck-billed creature, which doesn't appear to fit in any of the classifications you've created. So what you often end up having to do is rethink your entire hierarchy, refactoring into a different set of basic categories, or maintaining several categorizations along different axes. A lot of your thinking ends up getting thrown out, as well as any implementation you've done up to that point.""i guess this is just another way to describe what i think peterme is getting at when he talks about the 'calculus of information' [ e.g. - see april 13th post] - but from a completely different domain:
"The dynamism of our information spaces are what makes megalithic hierarchies so fundamentally limiting. Not only does information change, but my relationship to that information changes, and trying to catalog it typically forces it into a lowest-common-denominator structure that serves no one by trying to serve everyone. This is why I go on about basic-level categories and heaps of metadata--by reducing information to its most basic level, we can build it back up on-the-fly depending on the user's context."
"They may have their differences but Jews and Arabs share a common genetic heritage that stretches back thousands of years."and this:
"Everyone in Europe is descended from just seven women.this type of activity brings modern genetics back to its eugenic roots. any technology that allows groups to define other groups with a high degree of resolution brings similarities - and differences - into sharp contrast.Arriving at different times during the last 45,000 years, they survived wolves, bears and ice ages to form different clans that eventually became today's population."
"Imagine you have some kind of system that you administer through a web GUI, such as HotMail, your Netscape Admin server or a site like Zope.org. You get in to work and use this service for a while (check your mail, manage your servers, whatever). For our example, lets say you were using the netscape admin server.unfortunately, as the article points out, there is no easy 'solution'. i suppose while i'm standing on the security soapbox, i might as well point out yet another reason to be wary of hotmailLater in the day someone sends you an email asking you to look at a web page. You go the page using the browser session where earlier you had logged in to the admin server. However, the page does a redirect to a url of your admin server that causes your main web server to be deleted! The redirect will succeed, as you've already logged in to the admin server earlier with sufficient privileges to delete your server.
There are a few variations on this theme, involving JavaScript that can silently submit a hidden form to do the same sort of thing. It appears that most web applications involving authentication are vulnerable to this sort of attack.
Web clients will cache your credentials and send them automatically to a realm that you have visited earlier in the session, which in a stateless system is a reasonable behavior. The problem is that the client is also willing to let almost any page on the Web take actions automatically on your behalf through the use of things like redirects or javascript code. "
"In one recent study of 150 teenagers who weighed 2 pounds or less at birth, nearly one-third had significant physical disorders, including cerebral palsy, blindness and deafness. Nearly half were receiving special education assistance, compared with 10 percent in a control group. But the study, February in the journal Pediatrics, also found that even those children with minor physical problems scored significantly lower on achievement tests than those in the control group."o.k. i'll get it out of the way: <cheap joke>are you sure i didn't see you on the short bus?</cheap joke>. anyway, this makes me want to try to make the most of life and remember to enjoy all those perfect moments. something tells me that i'll forget all about it in the morning. hi. ho.
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“The stranger has been a fundamental touchstone of cultures at least since Abraham and Sarah invited weary road travelers into their tent only to find out that they were angels in disguise. The Odyssey, too, is a meditation on strangers and hospitality: Odysseus experiences different ways of being a stranger on his way home while the suitors abuse every rule of hospitality in his own house. It's easy to see why strangers are so important: a culture's attitude towards them expresses its understanding of its position in the world of social groups. In our culture, we're suspicious of strangers. They're a threat. They lurk in shadows. On the Web, however, strangers are the source of everything worthwhile. Strangers and their utterances are the stuff of the Web.”
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